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Amid spiralling violence, shoot-at-sight orders were on Tuesday issued by police in curfew-bound Srinagar as three more persons were killed in firing by security forces on violent protester

Amid spiralling violence, shoot-at-sight orders were on Tuesday issued by police in curfew-bound Srinagar as three more persons were killed in firing by security forces on violent protesters who defied restrictions and clashed with them in the Kashmir Valley.

The shoot-at-sight orders were announced through public address systems fitted in police vans in areas of Dal Gate, Residency Road and All India Radio Crossing in the city, police said.

File photo of women protesting against the killing of youths allegedly by security personnel in Srinagar. Photo PTI

Protesters defied curfew restrictions in Srinagar, Budgam, Bandipora, Awantipora, Kulgam and Baramulla and indulged in heavy stone pelting on security personnel. They attacked public and police properties at a number of places, a police spokesman said.

"Security forces had to open fire for self defence and for dispersal of mobs at few places, in which three persons have lost their lives and a number of police and CRPF men got injured," he said.

Meanwhile, Riyaz Ahmad Bhat, who was injured in firing in Khrew on August 1, succumbed to injuries in SKIMS hospital, police said. With four more deaths, the toll since last Friday has gone up to 26.

Residents of Qamarwari took out a procession this morning. Police and paramilitary forces tried to disperse them but when the mob refused, they opened fire killing 25-year-old Mehraj Ahmed Lone and injuring three others, police said.

In another incident in Eidgah area of the city, security forces fired at a violent group killing a person identified as Anees Khurshid, they said.

In Kulgam, one person, who is yet to be identified, was also killed in police firing, they said.

A large group of protesters took out a procession from Jama Masjid towards Eidgah here. Another group started off from Kanikadal. The CRPF opened when the group turned violent after reaching Karfali Mohalla, Fatehkadal, they said.

However, there were no immediate reports of any causality.

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